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This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena. ![[Image: ITgoyeg.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ITgoyeg.png)
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This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.
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Hawk Harrelson will cut back to an 81-game broadcast load in 2016, @MLBBruceLevine reports: cbsloc.al/1L258J3 pic.twitter.com/TyRH7d19K8
Very disappointed. That means I can only laugh at him half the season.
I just want to drink beer and play atari
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Quote:Hunter Pence? Really?
They REALLY love him in S.F. He's truly the soul of the team over there.
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Quote:Hawk Harrelson will cut back to an 81-game broadcast load in 2016, @MLBBruceLevine reports: cbsloc.al/1L258J3 pic.twitter.com/TyRH7d19K8
Very disappointed. That means I can only laugh at him half the season.
So so the time he was taking off with silence on the mic will now be replaced with days spent at home in his wife's underpants?
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Quote:<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="rok" data-cid="262407" data-time="1444055327">
Their pitching still blows aside from Price & Stroman
I think you're going off perception and not what really happened.
We all agree the Cubs pitching was incredible this year. In the 2nd half of the season, here was the staff's numbers:
50-25 with a 3.42 era.
The Blue Jays:
48-23 with a 3.34 era.
Their pitching improvement was the key reason they won the division. The offense was pretty steady all season.</blockquote>
I knew they had improved in the 2nd half, but they still hold a 3.80 team era for the entire year. That's actually very impressive for that ballpark. Anyway, they still lack a clear #2, but maybe it won't matter if they continue to bludgeon teams with their lineup.
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Quote:Hawk Harrelson will cut back to an 81-game broadcast load in 2016, @MLBBruceLevine reports: cbsloc.al/1L258J3 pic.twitter.com/TyRH7d19K8
Very disappointed. That means I can only laugh at him half the season.
He threatened to do the same last year until KW & Co. "won the offseason" and reeled him back in for a full season. You may be pleasantly surprised if they go balls out again at the winter meetings.
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The Sox' FO really did fucking kill it last winter...and the results speak for themselves. How could Hawk not show us all what TWTW looks like...yet again.
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More sad news from Sox land. Time to leave Chicago in 2032 when those Cell bond payments balloon.
Quote:TODAY AT 12:13 PM
Sox end ticket sales slide, but they're still short of projection
DANNY ECKER
For the first time since 2006, the Chicago White Sox sold more tickets than they did the year before.
The South Siders closed out a disappointing 2015 season yesterday to bring the team's final regular season paid attendance to 1,755,810. That's 21,677 fans per game.
That's up 6 percent year over year and ends a ticket sales slide that has plagued the team since it drew nearly 3 million fans to U.S. Cellular Field in the wake of winning the 2005 World Series.
The growth also outpaced the minimal uptick in overall paid attendance among Major League Baseball's 30 teams, which rose by less than 1 percent to an average of 30,337 per game.
The Sox finished with the fifth-lowest paid attendance total in the league, a slight improvement from fourth-lowest last season.
Season-ticket sales for the Sox got a significant boost before the season began after an aggressive offseason highlighted by the acquisition of David Robertson, Melky Cabrera, Adam LaRoche and Jeff Samardzija. The team issued a statement in February saying it had sold 50 percent more ticket packages than it had in the year-ago period.
But high expectations were thwarted quickly as many Sox players drastically underperformed compared with their career averages. The Sox finished with a record of 76-86, tied for third-worst in the American League.
In June, the team issued a memo to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, the public agency that owns its home stadium, projecting that it would sell 1.9 million tickets by the end of the year.
For a short time in late July, that seemed possible while the Sox stormed to a seven-game winning streak that briefly brought the team back into the postseason discussion.
But a 12-16 record in August effectively ended the team's playoff chances, and walk-up crowds in September were sparse. Six games during the Sox's final month of the season had paid attendance figures less than 13,000 fans.
The Sox's 2016 ticket prices will remain flat at an average of $26.05 per ticket, below the league average and 17th-highest in MLB.
LITTLE HELP TO ISFA
While the 6 percent ticket sales increase was a positive step for the team, it left the paid attendance figure well short of the threshold it must clear before paying ISFA a per-fan ticket fee.
After paying a base rental fee each season, the Sox pay ISFA $3 for every ticket sold between 1.95 million and 2,425,000, and on a graduated pay scale beyond that. The rental fee rises incrementally each year at the same rate as the Consumer Price Index. The team projected in its June memo to ISFA that its rent this year will be $1,587,826.
The team has not paid any per-fan ticket fees since 2010, when it drew nearly 2.2 million fans. The most it paid in such fees was about $3.5 million in 2006.
That money would help pad ISFA's reserve fund, which is designed to insulate it from shortfalls on its bond debt payments.
The agency, which pays off debt from construction of U.S. Cellular Field and the renovation of Soldier Field, owes bondholders $36 million for fiscal 2016. Its annual debt payments are scheduled to balloon steadily to $87 million in 2032, and the city is on the hook for any shortfalls between debt obligations and the hotel tax revenue that makes up the bulk of ISFA's revenue.
One new development this season that may help: The Sox waived a right in their stadium rental agreement that has prevented ISFA from pulling in its own revenue from advertising on video boards.
Part of the agency's approval last week of a $7.3 million project to install three new video boards at the stadium was giving ISFA the ability to sell ads for the boards during any non-Sox events it hosts in the future.
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Addition by subtraction by addiction.
One dick can poke an eye out. A hundred dicks can move mountains.
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Cubs fans will end up paying for the fucking Cell.
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